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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Badger vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaDGraph LabsMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release201720152012
Current releaseV17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing Azure authenticationno
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